Prep for Semester 2
Content: Assessed Work:
- Blog → Plays the role of a sketchbook (what are you INTERESTED in?)
- Poster → 2pm Feb 9th
- Essay → 26th March
Assessed on these three things en
masse
After Xmas break:
Seminars – program-specific →
uses stuff from the blog
Leading up to poster
No hard-and-fast rules for the
blog – just ongoing engagement
Reference EVERYTHING!!!
(citations)
Have a critical perspectives
folder!
Find a way to manage all this –
don't get hung up on the essay
Better to have too much and edit
it down
The seminars will help you write
it
Use the UWE Harvard reference
system – practice using it on your blog
One set title: “Present a
detailed, critical analysis of a cultural text”
Identify a cultural text
you want to know more about
Find one with a
representation of an idea you want to explore
The “Anaconda” video is a cultural text! Not
just written texts
Critical =/= negative; how and
why things work
Resist the urge to boomerang back
to familiar territory – you're here to learn NEW things
You can mention other texts
(contrast) but don't go into detail
Identify the broader issue
Poster – inherently tied to
your essay
Will be discussed in the seminars
All posters will be exhibited in
February!
Posters in this context are
junior versions of academic presentations
Seminars are at Bower Ashton –
NOT Ashton Court
x1 hour session a week (Thurs.)
except 22nd Jan and 12th Feb
SHOULD be on online timetable
There WILL be prep for seminars –
tasks (see Blackboard)
Seminars make university
university – STEEL YOURSELF; take part
A kind of luxury item – builds
confidence
Office Hours will be posted after
Christmas
Talk to a librarian about
research
1. “Who are you?”
What's the most important aspect
of you? How did you learn that?
Our expected place in the world
shaped by our families – but family's a cultural construct
(culturally specific*)
Cultural forms – our
expectations of our own and others' identities
Foucault: “there's no such
thing as a natural body”
*arbitrary but not meaningless
2. “Who are we?”
Who are we talking about?
Collective, shared identity
The state/country you're born
into affects how the world sees you
Whiteness is a standard – the
“norm”; anything else is seen as a racialized identity
“Culture” is almost something
that happens to other people”
3.
“Who is the other?”
“Them
and us” - meaningly polarization
“Them”
= a projection onto those who are not “us”, usually not based on
first-hand experience
Stereotyping
is a practice –
it requires repetition
“[Stereotyping
is] a form of symbolic violence” - Pierre Bordieu
Absence;
condemnation; trivialisation – 3 different strategies (Gaye Tuchman, 1978)
Exoticisation +
infantilisation
In
your essay, don't use terms like “we” and “us” without
explaining – this lecture deconstructs that (also avoid “the
public”)
Recognise
the power system; the process of “othering” - as both a creator
and a consumer
Understand
the impact of your cultural texts – be a conscious maker
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